An unemployment or financial hardship can easily extinguish the flame of passion in your marriage.  That's why it's so important to do your best throughout the year to show your mate how much you love them.   Now, I know this isn't always easy to do, especially when there's so much stress and money is tight.

But to keep the spark alive, you'll need to be open-minded, creative, and willing to put forth an effort to intentionally show your love in tangible ways.   Particularly…

The journey of unemployment for my family has been a long one.  The emotions have been raw and have run deep.  Everything from anger to loneliness to depression.    If not for our faith, I'm not sure our family would still be strongly united and hopeful.  God's hand has been hard at work over…

One of the most difficult issues many women face in today's economy is coping with the pressures of life when their husband falls victim to the nation's staggering unemployment crisis.  The emotional impact itself is a very lonely burden to carry.

We want to be strong for our husband and continue to be the glue that holds our family together, but it's hard when all we really want to do is bury our head under our pillow as if it's all just a bad dream.  The only problem is the…

"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.  Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."  ~Galatians 5:1

A year ago, if someone would have told me I was a broken person with all sorts of garbage floating around inside my soul, I would have thought they were crazy and probably would have been offended.   Sure, I had a lifetime of emotions and personal baggage that I carried around with me, sometimes even on…